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At the other end of the base, two incredibly tired cadets sat in a very dark and spacious room a hundred meters below the surface.
Next to them was a mecha that looked substantially different from the training mecha elsewhere in the base. Its lines were curved, and every extremity ended in dangerous edges, including its fingers. It looked as though it was wholly designed to punch through the heaviest of defenses.
They looked menacing and dangerous.
One of the cadets tapped on their datapad, which displayed the schematics and stats for the mecha next to them.
He then opened up a console and started to hack into the mecha's operating system while his female partner stood watch.
It didn't take him much time to rewrite what
CeritusOrbisThe action is about to go into overdrive, and this is the calm before the storm.
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